{"id":384,"date":"2007-12-28T19:23:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T19:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=384"},"modified":"2020-08-14T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:19:20","slug":"wii_sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Wii sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben <a href=\"http:\/\/hobershort.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/24\/whys-it-gotta-be-that-way\/\">points out<\/a> that it&#8217;s been a long time since my last entry. Fortunately, I had an experience yesterday that is relevant to his <a href=\"http:\/\/hobershort.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/21\/the-best-kind-of-problem-to-have\/\">recent article<\/a> about the supply and demand of the Nintendo Wii.<\/p>\n<p>I was in a Wal-Mart when an associate came on the public address system and said, &#8220;We now have the Nintendo Wii in stock.&#8221; I wasn&#8217;t interested in buying a Wii myself, but I headed for Electronics anyway because I was curious. I hadn&#8217;t actually seen Wiis for sale before, and I wondered if a mob would form and start fighting over them.<\/p>\n<p>What I actually saw was rather anticlimactic. There were indeed some Wii packages visible behind the glass of the game-console display case, and a woman in that aisle had one in her cart. No other customers were there. I shrugged and went back to my shopping. When I was ready to check out, I swung by Electronics again just to see if anything had changed. The Wiis were gone, but when I asked an associate how many the store had received that day, she said &#8220;Four&#8221;. So it&#8217;s not surprising that they sold out quickly.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s my firsthand experience with Wii demand: enough to make them disappear in short order, but not enough to draw a crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in a Wal-Mart when an associate came on the public address system and said, &#8220;We now have the Nintendo Wii in stock.&#8221;<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=384\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}